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A collection of several poems and verses composed upon various occasions by Mr. William Cleland.
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Cleland, William, 1661?-1689.
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1697
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Wing C4627; ESTC R29226
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what may follow may make Spirits shrinke In drouâ—…e grief and sorrow since he`s gone Who with a Spirit Seraphick his allone Resisted Truths Opposers who did stand Throwing their Darts at him at every hand Yet not allone for the great Soveraign The King of Kings whose Glorious splendent Train Did fill the Temple was his strength and stay In whom he Liv'd in whom he clos`d his day With whom he now Triumphs with whom he sings The Lambs and Moses song he drinks the Springs Of Joy and Consolation in a kind Not heard nor seen nor entred in the minde Of Mortals to conceive while now above In full Fruition of that Matchless Love Tho he Triumphs yet we may mourn and Weep Since in such Cloudie dayes is fallen a sleep So great a Seer such a shining light Whereby our day is almost turn`d to night For Truth a Champion both by Tongue and Pen Regardless of the wrath and rage of Men. What Pen can write or what Tongue can express His Choicest parts his worth his usefulness Some praise the Liberal Soul â—…aud some do prize The mind that 's stedfast others magnisies The Tongue that`s eloquent others admire A breast not subject to nor toucht with fear Some praise the learn`d some think the prudent be Above the Common fate and destiny Of other mortals some takes the devote For persons Blessed in their hardest Lot For Poesy some have a Veneration With some the Sedulous in their Vocation Are in esteem how to be praised is he In whom these Vertues in a high degree Did burn and Blaze Let all who do esteem These Choicest Vertues of a Heavenly strain Come joyn and mourn with me O let them come And help me to express or sitting dumb In Melancholious muteness and in Tears Regrait our present loss and ground offears He did Survive the rest of these great lights Discharged their native Lands by cursed Wights Which makes our stroke more misty sad and dim For while he liv`d they seem`d to live in him As if the rest who did before ascend In loves thrice burning Chariot to attend Their high and loftie One their Mantles dropt And he the same receiv`d where with he stopt Defections current he himself on dry And solid ground went to Eternity Yet e`re he went prepar`d to leave behind Such Fragrant Writings from his candid mind Such strengths and Bulwarks for the Truth that he Thereby remains to teach posteritie His famous works serves to transmit his Fame From Age to Age and Eternize his Name Some few Lines composed by him for Divertisement from Melancholick Thoughts when traveling abroad To the Tune of Fancy free O'Re Hills o're Mountains scâ—…ogie woods O're Heaths o`re Desarts dry Oâ—…re dusky Marishes and Floods where Tritons Company So wantonly skipt here and there within these â—…aterie Vawes Unâ—…anton`d by that caâ—…cking care which Human Wights inslaves 2 O`re stony hights o`re champine ground where Ceres bows her head O`re ragged Rocks where Ecchoes sound and bearded people feed O`re walled Cities frightsome forts o`re waterie sinking sands Retrenched Villages and Boges where Neptouns Castle stands 3 Through wounding woods of glistering spears prepared for Humane Death Through sudden Showers of leaden Spears that quickly cut the breath Through armed troups where horses prance as if they would incite Their roaring Riders to advance their Counter part to meet 4 Where Trumpets sound and Drums do beat as in a solemn way They were ordain`d of Soveraign fate a Triumph to convey Great Souls of Heroes as they flie at wounds of Bteast and Brain And then bass forth their Elogie iu mournfull groaning strain 5 5 Through Razing rage of cursed Kings whom vitious Souls admire Through unjust sentences which springs from avarice or fear Or some such like infernall cause hence guiltless people quake Before his face whose Sword whose Laws should their opposers shake 6 6 Through firie Feavers wasting Wounds through Melancholious want Through sad disastures which abound to such as long and pant Even for true vertue which sure the weakly spirit faints Who forced troubles to Endure must die in discontent Through Calumnies through frauds and slights that moveth mortals mind Through slandering tongues of bruttish wights to pevishness inclin`d They must adventure who intends in Vertues camp to warr Abhoring mean penurious ends that brave exploits do marr 8 If when travers`d by all such fates honour and vertue be Both proof against Enchanting bates and frowning destiny A Soul may have a sure solace when stormed on every side And look proud Tyrants in the sace with scorn to be dismay`d 9 Contentment with a present case to praise I`le not forbear Sure it deserves the highest place amongst these vertues rare By Heathen people so much sought but never yet obtain`d Its Heaven`s great gift not to be bought nor by Industrie gain`d Some Lines made by him upon the Observation of the Vanity of Worldly Honours after he had been at several Princes Courts To the Tune of Come let us walk and veiw the Spring HOw mean a thing is it to stay On praising Emperours of Clay While He who being Life and Breath To every Mortall granted hath Doth us invite to Praise and Sing The Trophies of his Glorious Reign Hosts of strong Angels to express His pow`r and perfect Blessedness Their spacious thoughts extended have Since Times first morning yet perceive Their notes so low they shade with Wings Their blushing Countenance and Sings Heaven Earth and all that in them is Eehoes their notes and addeth this We't but thin shaddows of that light That Wisdom Goodness Truth and Might Which from noughts Bowells us Extracted By which we`re ordered and acted The whole Creation doth accord To Adam`s Sons they will affoord Constraining maters to concert With them for acting of a part That so conjoyned with those above They may advance in light and Love The splended Sun by subtile Rayes Preacheth his Glory to our eyes The Seas and Thunder do declare His Might and tertour to the ear His Milk and Hony Corn and Wine Taste of a Goodness that`s Divine In Heats we feel his Cooling Gales His Florid fields of Bounty smells He sends his Ministering Spirits Who Man protects Instructs incites In their blessed Chore to take a place And sing albeit a Feeble bass In Heavenly state from Sinai Hill He published his Sacred will His Fiery Throne surrounded with Thunder And smokie Oceans caused such wonder And fright that those conveened to hear it Had Souls too limited to bear it His shaddow on meek Moses Face Did more than dazle Jacob's Race Which Vail`d he did them declare GOD`s will in sounds which they might bear And did in Aarons hands Consign Books of the manner of his Reign Omnipotence could not sp ak low Enough to make blind Mortals know Much of himself even Mojes eye Though strong his Glory would not see His Trembling ear heard him proclaim The high Abridgement of his Name By all we`re forced